The subject of this photograph is believed to be Theda M. Hastorf? The name appearing in graphite on the frame verso of this print, along with the date November, 1924.

Frances M. Bode: 1892-1974

Frances M. Bode was a student of the Clarence H. White School of Photography. She was active in the Pictorial Photographers of America. (PPA: she was its treasurer in 1928) Her sister-in-law was the well known pictorialist photographer Allie Frances Bramberg Bode, (1891-1975) also a White School student who accompanied others to Mexico with Clarence White in 1925- where White died suddenly in Mexico City. (White may have photographed Frances Bode in 1924)

Frances Bode is known to have photographed Margaret Watkins at the Clarence H. White School of Photography in 1921.

The following bio courtesy Kathleen A. Erwin: Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography, 1996, p. 193: Frances Bode  American (born in Dobbs Ferry, New York). 1892-1974  | White’s student at Teachers College by 1919; White School student 1921-22. Secretary, White School Alumni Association, 1924; work appeared in Camera Pictures 1925. Member PPA 1922-ca. 1952; PPA treasurer 1928-29. Own studio early 1920s, portrait and fashion photography. Traveled around world 1929-30. Social worker 1930s and 1940s. Exhibited: Kohakai 1922.